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Chisinau, August 15 /MOLDPRES/- Foreign citizens who have problems with the law will no longer be able to use legal tricks to avoid extradition from the Republic of Moldova and evade criminal liability. The promulgation decree and the Law for amending certain normative acts have been published in the Official Journal and entered into force.

Thus, the maximum period of pre-trial detention for the purpose of extradition will be increased from 180 days to 12 months. Also, the Law on Asylum in the Republic of Moldova has been supplemented with a new category of applications that must be examined in a fast procedure. It is about the applications of the persons for whom the extradition procedure has been initiated. In this way, the processing time for asylum applications submitted by these individuals will be reduced.

Deadlines for reviewing appeals applicable to the decisions issued by the courts regarding complaints against the decisions of the General Inspectorate for Migration will be changed. Respectively, the decision to reject asylum application can be contested through administrative litigation, without prior procedure, within five working days from the date of communication. The court's decision to uphold or cancel the decision to reject the asylum application may be appealed to the Court of Appeal, and the Court of Appeal's decision will not subject to any appeal, being irrevocable.

So far, the deadlines for holding people in custody for extradition and the deadlines for issuing an irrevocable decision on asylum applications did not correspond. So, it is impossible to ensure the detention of the extraditable person in custody until surrender to the requesting state, and criminals take advantage of this.